George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 605.9-605.19
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Context
George Syncellus (“cellmate”), whose career spanned the late 8th to
very early 9th centuries, was a Palestinian monk before his appointment as the assistant
to Tarasius, Patriarch of Contantinople. Apparently facing hostility from the emperor
Nicephorus I, he retired to monastic solitude in ca. 808, where he devoted himself to
writing his Chronographic Selection (Ἐκλογὴ Χρονογραφίας). This work was
a universal history in the form of a synchronic tabulation by year, following the
chronographic models of the Late Antique Near East and Egypt that were rooted in the
works of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea. In his entry under the Year
of the World 5520 (20 C.E.), George recorded Tiberius’ appointment of Pontius Pilate to
the governship of Judaea.
Text
Τὰ ὑπόλοιπα τοῦ μονάρχου Καίσαρος Τιβερίου, τοῦ κόσμου ἔτη ͵εφκʹ.Τιβέριος Δροῦσον τῆς ἀρχῆς κοινωνὸν προσλαβόμενος μετὰ μικρὸν ὡς φαρμακὸν ἀνεῖλε.Τὸ
Πομπηίου θέατρον ἐνεπρήσθη.Τιβέριος Πόντιον Πιλᾶτον ἡγεμόνα τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐξέπεμψε.Φίλιππος τετράρχης Παναιάδα ἀνακτίσας Καισάρειαν Φιλίππου προσωνόμασεν.Ὁ αὐτὸς πόλιν
Ἰουλιάδα ἔκτισεν.Ἡρώδης ἔκτισε Τιβεριάδα εἰς ὄνομα Τιβερίου Καίσαρος, ὁ αὐτὸς
Λιβιάδα.1
Textual Note
Ed. Dindorf 1829Textual Note
Minor corr. J. L. Rife with ref. to Mosshammer 1984Translation
The remaining events in the life of the monarch Tiberius Caesar,
Year of the World 5520.After taking on Drusus as a joint ruler, Tiberius killed him a
little later as a scapegoat.The Theater of Pompey was set ablaze.Tiberius sent out
Pontius Pilate as governor of Judaea.Philip the Tetrarch rebuilt Panaias and granted
it the name Caesarea Philippi. He also founded the city of Julias.Herod founded
Tiberias after the name of Tiberius Caesar; he also founded Libias.2
Translation Note
Rev. Adler and Tuffin 2002 with ref. to Dindorf 1829Works Cited
- 1 George Syncellus, Georgius Syncellus et Nicephorus Cp. I, ed. Wilhelm Dindorfius, vol. 1, 2 vols., Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (Bonn: Weber, 1829), p: 605.9-605.19.
- 2 George Syncellus, The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation, trans. William Adler and Paul Tuffin (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p: 462.
Additional Bibliography
- Origen, Der Brief des Origenes an Gregorios Thaumaturgos [Letter to Gregory the Miracle-Worker], in Des Gregorios Thaumaturgos Dankrede an Origenes, ed. Paul Koetschau, Sammlung ausgewählter kirchen- und dogmengeschichtlicher Quellenschriften 9 (Freiburg & Leipzig: Mohr, 1894), 40–44, p: 388.1-388.10.
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Joseph L. Rife, “George Syncellus, Chronographic Selection 605.9-605.19,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/352.
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